Mira is the  long-lost biological da:u]ghter of the Ha;=le family o\+f Ashen C(i;$ty. Yet after retur]n.,`(ing h+?ome, she  r.%-\e pe%atedly giv*,_es ([`way to%
_ their adopte^d daughter, Lia—surrenderin#.g  her ro \om, he`r^ ^? p%%$lace$( a `#s
a dragon rider,+ and `* .:even %?half of her^+ mother’s inherit/a)//nce
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B+(;-efore the wedding, \Draego*t;.h—the bonded dragon ,G..arr`)ick/:( person_=ally@ tamed and the only ke.-epsake Mira?+ has left from her mother—is tra?ined to obe)@y Lia a?lone^= and near),;l(y k`ill]s M#/ira. Real/izing . t ;ha%+.t Garrick, her fiancé of $ eight ye$ a=/%.rs, h ^?as alw%*ays seen h[er \(/as nothing mor^ e than a gullible woma
n, Mira \*``walks *.ba#.re\##foot!( across burnin*g coa*(l#[%s-:(, b)_ ?re\? ak s;@, of
+f t hei )r enga!`_gement, and turns `to marry Theron, the Lord of the ^*North, who; h?, /as waited eig@(ht years f! or her.
When Ga#rr(:ick `, Lia, and Mira^@’s[ `!brother-] Cael a=)rri_
^ve a [t  the= magnificent Northern weddin,/*-g a=-`]nd discover t( $ hat M,+,ira is the bride*, t$`hey are over.wh_el:med with regret—but* it is`@_ )already# t@oo late. I.$n the e[
%nd#, Mi=`*ra is surrounded by the lo
v[e $she de*serves^!#, and `h-^]er mothe ?r’s_ dragon f;\inally retu^rns =:to her :_side.